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Should Kids Go to Jail for Skipping School?
With school budgets cut to the bone, every dollar counts, and each absent child represents lost state funding.
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Colombia’s Displaced People Speak Out in New Oral History Collection
Forget the debate about whether the personal is political: these stories annihilate the distinction altogether.
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Drone Strikes on People With AIDS?
The Trans-Pacific Partnership's provisions, aimed at creating stronger and longer monopolies and making it more difficult to use legal tools to promote access to generics, could cut off access …
Election Countdown 2012: Chicago Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard Left Rochester After 90 Percent of Teachers Voted “No Confidence” in His Leadership, and More
Election roundup coverage for September 11, 2012. Election countdown leads with Chicago teachers strike.
Four Reasons Chicago’s Teachers Are On Strike
More electives. Support staff for students who need it. Fair compensation. Recall rights.
Why Did Monsanto Support Labeling GE Food in the UK But Not in California?
“Now they expect us to believe that Europeans have the right to know what's in their food, but Americans don't,” says a source.
Iran, the Left and the Non-Aligned Movement: A Guide for the Perplexed
The bafflement about Iran so widespread on the Left has a long history.
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Anti-Drug War Caravan Comes to the Midwest, Heads East
Washington spends billions to incarcerate people for drug crimes, has criminalized Latinos and African-Americans, but the US is still the biggest drug market in the world, and violence is …
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A Tight Election May Be Tangled in Legal Battles
In the last few weeks, nearly a dozen federal and state court decisions on early voting, provisional ballots and voter ID requirements have driven the rules in conflicting directions, …
The Biggest Economic Challenge of Obama’s Second Term
Not even the Jobs Act will be enough to boost the anemic recovery. In January, he's got to do something big, like a new WPA or CCC.